Chile: Vegetable imports grow 19.2% between January and May 2022
Vegetables
Chile
Published Jun 25, 2022
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Vegetable imports made during the first five months of 2022 reached 103.6 million
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By Editorial PortalPortuario.cl, @PortalPortuario, CIF dollars, 19.2% more than the value imported into Chile in the same period of 2021. This was thanks to the increase in the amount of all imports. fresh and processed vegetables, despite the lower acquisition of dehydrated vegetables by 48%, according to the Office of Agricultural Studies and Policies (Odepa). The main species imported was the tomato with 14.4% of the value (17 million dollars), 67.6% of that figure was imported as tomato paste, mainly from the United States, Mexico and China. It is followed by imports of corn with 8.6 million CIF dollars entered Chile between January and May 2022, mainly frozen (93.8%), from Belgium, Poland, China, the United States and Spain. According to origin, the main supplier, in the analysis period, was China with 17.9% of the imported value, providing fresh garlic, tomato paste, dehydrated pepper and frozen corn. In second place was the United States with 15%, a nation that supplied ...
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